[kellychaos]

I don't really remember HOW I was taught to read. It seems part of it was phonetic, part of it was memorization of vocabulary tables (which was more of a photographic memory sort of thing rather than learning the definition ... if that makes any sense), and part of it was learning the hard word spellings and definitions by the surrounding context. While I think that learning by rote has it's place depending on the subject, a child should also learn to hone his analytic and problem-solving skills.